Dream Cinema Program at Milan Design Week 2026

the CINEMA OF DREAMS AT MILAN DESIGN WEEK 2026

ROOM FOR A DREAM opens its doors on Monday, April 20, with a multi-layered takeover I Milan The Duke exploring dreams as rigorous tools for social and cultural transformation. During Milan Design Week 2026the play unfolds across the street the hotel designed by Aldo Rossi in Piazza della Repubblica with large-scale installations, live talks, daily rituals and a dedicated cinema space. Designed by Paf atelierthe Dream Cinema it’s the heart of our temporary creative ecosystem – part installation, part screening room, a world all its own.

Brought to life in collaboration with visionary archives and filmmakers, tcurates his daily schedule The lens of designboom’s Utopian Optimism. Offering a different way to tackle creativity during Milan’s busiest week, aAudiences are invited to explore films, shorts and video interviews that celebrate ideas that dare to dream, stories that shift perspectives and creatives whose works promote curiosity, play and innovation.

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visual by Paf atelier for Cinema of Dreams

FILMS, MICRO FILMS AND VIDEO INTERVIEWS all week

Every day starts with an inspiring collection of Advice to Young People by some of the world’s leading architects, artists, photographers and writers, presented in association with Louisiana Canalthe video production platform of the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art in Denmark. Through this partnership, the program also includes a series of video interviews that offer first-hand insights into the creative minds shaping culture today, such as Sir Peter Cook, Mariko Mori, Balkrishna Doshiamong many others. Feature films and documentaries are shown daily, among others E.1027: Eileen Gray and the House by the Seathe Swiss-directed documentary film Beatrice Minger and Christoph Schaub exploring the life of the Irish architect and her iconic 1929 modernist villa on the Côte d’Azur. Koolhaas Houselife by artists and filmmakers Becca & Lemonwhich tells his story Rem Koolhaas/OMA’s 1998 house in Bordeaux through the stories and daily chores of Guadalupe Acedo, the housekeeper. and Vija. The impossible portraitalso by Bêka & Lemoine, a lively, witty and heartfelt portrait of him Latvian-American artist Vija Celmins.

Architectural documents from 9 secondsdirected by Patrick Voigt, immerses viewers in the works of today’s masters, including John Pawson, Heatherwick Studiosand David Chipperfield. On Wednesday, April 22the program is dedicated Earth Dayfeaturing a special collection of films dealing with ecology, material cycles and our relationship with the other species that inhabit our planet. Throughout the week, the Cinema of Dreams is also being strengthened voices from our global creative community with movies from designboom contributorssuch as Sculpting This Earth with Victor van Aswegenwhich follows an artist Strijdom van der Merwe in four seasons as he creates land art in remote South Africa. and Art Walker with Tayfun Sarier and Zeynep Oguza surreal, playful short film that follows the journey of a mysterious painting across the city of London.

Cinema of Dreams will also reveal two premieres: The Talented Mr. Robbie with Carlo Ratti Associates and Macro Sakr on Thursday, April 23, at 4:00 p.m; and Seeing Further with OPPO and designbooma short film shot entirely on its latest flagship device, the Find X9 Ultra, during the week and will premiere on Friday, April 24, at 12:00.

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A SENSUAL CAPSULE BY PAF ATELIER in the room for dreams

Designed in collaboration with Paf atelierthe Cinema of Dreams takes the form of a spatial and sensory capsule, a journey through different layers of the imagination, where space becomes a tool of projection, suspension and internal displacement. The project explores how a dream can become design material in itself: a language, an atmosphere, an experience.

Designed as a cinematic experience, the work does not tell a linear story. Instead, it opens up a mental region shaped by images, sensations, and possibilities. For the Paf atelier, the dream is not a decorative escape. it becomes a way of producing narrative, tension and new forms of attention. At a time when the outside world is often characterized by acceleration, uncertainty and noise, this installation instead claims a space of deceleration, optimism and projection. More than just a space, the project stands as a living manifesto where material, technology and narrative intersect in the service of an active imagination. With this project, the Paf atelier confirms a simple belief: today, designing spaces also means creating the conditions to dream, believe and perceive other futures.

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visual by Paf atelier for Cinema of Dreams